SOCIAL COMMITMENT OF NORTHEASTERN FIRMS - A STUDY OF THE ADDED VALUE STATEMENT IN LIGHT OF THE KANITZ THERMOMETER

This study aimed to test whether the prediction model used in the thermometer of Kanitz is able to rank the level of social commitment of sixteen major companies located in the Northeast. Companies object of this research were selected from a technical study, published by Northeast Bank in 2008. The rationale for this research is to propose a statistic to identify